Watercolor World is busy icon the basis inwards oils. Sorry - non oils - watercolours. The site is creating a gratis online database of documentary watercolour paintings which were painted earlier 1900. You tin explore this database of paintings for yourself yesteryear the dependent champaign matters depicted or yesteryear the locations pictured using the Watercolour World interactive map.
The interactive map allows yous to search for watercolour paintings of your favorite locations or for places that are most your electrical flow location. It is besides possible to search Watercolour World's huge collection of digitized paintings yesteryear creative mortal name, yesteryear fine art museum collection, yesteryear category or yesteryear tag.
Watercolour World uses the Leaflet mapping platform, which I'm unremarkably alone inwards favor of. It is slap-up fun exploring these onetime paintings to meet how places looked inwards the past. It would last actually slap-up if yous could compare the depicted landscapes alongside the same views shown today using Google Maps Street View.
Also See
Ukiyo-e Map - an interactive map of geo-located prints yesteryear the Japanese creative mortal Hiroshige
Artmaps - an interactive map showing 23,000 industrial plant of fine art inwards The Tate collection
Place to Paint - the interactive map for artists to portion the locations where they pigment too the artworks which they bring created at those locations
